Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-09-03
REVIEWED BY THE QUEEN.
THE EEGLIsd ARMY PASSING BE
FORE VICTORIA.
Description of Review at Aldershot
How the Various Regiments
Look en-Tba Tonsh HnGSaF6.

How the Various Regiments
LoOked-The Tenth Hussars.
"Cockaigul" in London letter to the
San Francisco ATgoRaut describes Queen
Victoria's review Of the Briti>h 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
tnear where the ex-Empress Eugene
lives), having Travelled down from Wind
sor by special train. Tho 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, tie
Duke of Cambridge on the other. The
weather was perfect-an almost cloudless
sky, with q faint bree. e. AS soon as
everything was in readine s, the Duke of
Cambridge--w who is in his element at a
review-gave the order to begin.
The procession was headed by Sir
Archibald Alison, the General in com
mand of the Aldershot Division, ac-
companied by brilliant staff. As soon
as he reached the saluting point, he
turned to the right, and, leaving his stall
to keep on without him, took up his
position beside the Queens carriage.
Then cane four batter, es of horse artil.
lery. The horse artillery always have
precedence of all other troops and take
the right of every column at review,
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 \
very snowy one. Sable busbits 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 l1mbers or caissons. Next came the
First Life Guards, one of the regiments
of Household Cavalry. Nearly every
visitor to London knows the uniform CT
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
be, ches, long, black jack boots, and
scarlet coats. After them came the First
Dragons, in brass helmets and scarlet
tunics; and then the Scots Geys, with
black bcagskin 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 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 the
Lieutenants, Like all English hussaI
regiments, its uniform is blue with gold
lace cords across the breast.
There are several good stories told
about the Tenth Hussars. ''Ouida," il
her novels, speaks of them as the mon.
dancing Tenth" The origin of this
name, so goes the story, was this: At 8
bail 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 al
the exhibition of puppy ISM, that she
went up to the senior officer present
from whom she had received the same
answer, and said;
'Do the Tenth march|'
"Ya-as."
"Well, then, be good enough to ordel
the Tenth to march out Of my house,
The major scanned her through hi
eye-glass, twisted his mustache, anC
lisped, "Ya as" In five minutes every
man Jack of them had gone.
The Field Artillery came after thu
Tenth Hussars Their uniform is mucf
palmer and serviceable than the Horse
artillery, being dark blue tunics will
red facing8, and felt helmets. They sit
too, upon the limbers, etc. After then
came some Royal Engineers in red uni
forms, and commi sariat and transport
corps wagons. At this point the cavalry
bands ceased playing, I'D gave way t.
the different infantry bands, which il
turn masscd themselves to play while
the foot soldiers pas 'ed. Keeping tint
to the air of ''Ihe British Grenadiers, ;
the Brigade of Guards went by, making
perhaps, the finest display of all tn,
troops in line. There was a battalion
each of the Greadicrs, Coldstreams, ant
Scots, all, in the main, dressed alike il
high, black bearskin caps and scarle
tulics, and each battalion numbering
about six hundred and fifty officers anC
mn. Interest generally flags by tn
tine the infantry come up. They lool
so much alike in their red coats alC
black helmets, with now and then
break made by the raccoon-iur caps o
the Fusiliers their di tinctive head
gear, or the dingy, dark, invisible greer
of the Rifles. There was such want o
uniformity in the strength of the differ
ent infantry battalions. also-ranging, a
they did, from three hundred and sixty
four men of the Lancaster Regiment t.
the seven hundred and twenty-five 0
the Inniskillen Fusiliers. AS soon a
the monotonous filing past of the "wear.
Foot" was over, the Horse Artillery anC
Cavalry revived the spirits of every on
~ going twice more-the first time at
trot, the second at a gallop Then tn
troops moved off and the sham figh
began.
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