Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser. — 1894-10-05 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

ARMY AND VOLUNTEER NOTES.  The Duke of Cambridge made an inspection of I the troops stationed at York last week. His Royal Highness was accompanied by Colonel Viscount Downs, A.0.C., Sir Evelyn Wood. V.C., Prince Adolph. of Took, and Colonel Fits George. On the 29.1 September he inspected three batteriee of Artillery at Newcastle.  The Times, in a recent article on the cavalry 'nonsense., him dwelt strongly on the necessity for the continuance of geld training for our cavalry. This year the direct control of the manceuvres was placed in the hands of Lieutenant General Keith Irsaer, about lA= being voted for this special service. Heretofore the General Officer commanding the Aldershot Division took command. In his re. port on the proceedings, General Veneer pointed out that the principal lessons to be learnt from the operations are that regiments and squadrons require more practice in man...wring and recornaissan. duty. In good time, no doubt, those lessons will be taken to heart. • •  In dredging the bed of the Danube at Listover last week a sunken pontoon, one of the many used I, y the Russians during the Rosso-Turkish war of 1877, wan brought to the surface. It woo about 18 feet long, 6 feet beam, and would float in about 3 . feet of water. The hull was perforated with bullet holes, an inspection showing the marks of 58 bullets. In the body of the pontoon were found bones and serrenteen Krynk rides, a leaded revolver, and an officer's sabre, with the Russian eagle in silver relief on the hilt, and an inscription in Slav characters, stating that the weapon was presented to Ensign Petrovitch of the 51st Regiment of Infantry for skill at arms on the 25th of April, 1876. There is a grim sad eloquence in this battered silent witness from the shoal Iced of the treacherous Danube. The turbid swollen river, Is murderous decimating volley from the Turks on the southern bank, and the gallant officer and his comrades are amongst the great majority. • • • The old colours of the 41st Regiment are to be transferred from Wrexham to Llandaff Cathedral by special sanction of the War Office, and it is interesting to note that an effort is being made at Cardiff to have a gathering of the old veterans of the regiment on this occasion, some of whom, riaya the Routh ll'olev Daily hyss, have fought beneath the old colours. The action of the Cardiff eiticece in their kindly remembrance of the old soldiers of the Welsh Regiment • on this occarrion might well be copied in other porta of the kingdom. • • •  A draft composed of one sergeant one corporal, one drummer, and 97 rank and file of the lot Battalion Royal Lancaster Regiment, will embark on the hired transport Di'warm on the 24th November, for Ind* for service with the 2nd Battalion.  The new arrangements for transport service are, says a Southampton correspondent. a decided improvement on the old system. The troops are quickly embarked, have more comfortable quarters, are better fed, sad will be under the direct control of military officer. The letter arrangement will commend itself to the army at large. It is to be hoped that now the dual control between Horse Gnards and Admiralty has ceased to exist, that many of the evils of the old trooping system will disappear, notably, the injudicious arrangement of bringing home hundreds of invalids and time.expized soldiers from a hot climate, and exposing them to a voyage from the Bay of Biscay to Spithead, during the winter months, clad in Indian serge, and other tropical clothing. Now that the War Office have a free hand, we may hope for a good many desirable reforms in this direction. Conan Doyle's dramatic sketch. "A Story of Waterloo," hoe met with a flattering reception from the Press and the Bristol playgoers. The picture of the old corporal of the Guards, watching with moistened eyes the old regiment march past, or fighting anew his battles over the tea table, is true to nature and common to everyday life. and yet so pathetic in itself that it scarcely needed the skilful pen of Conan Doyle, or the genius of Mr. Iming to make a sketch like the "Story of Waterloo" popular • with an English audience. There are many veterans in England to-day who, like the oid corporal. have undergone their baptism of fire, and spent their manhood in one service, many of them maimed and disabled. and are neglected and ignored in their old age and poverty, by an unthinking