next took the command, but was soon hit, first slightly on the head;-in a few minutes afterwards he received a ball in the thigh, which obliged him to go to the rear; the honour of bringing the Royal Welsh out of action was thus reserved for Captain Bell.

In all battles the defence of the colours necessarily forms an interesting feature, and Alma exhibited several instances. The 33rd., Duke of Wellington's Regiment, had nineteen sergeants killed or wounded, chiefly in defence of the colours. Captain Robert William Hamilton, of the Grenadier Guards, was wounded when carrying the colours, but continued with them throughout the day. The Scots Fusilier Guards had a memorable contest for theirs. Lieutenants Lindsay and Thistlethwayte, who carried the colours, cut their way through the enemy, and though the broken staff, and the marks of sixteen bullets, shewed the severity of the struggle, and the colour-sergeants were struck down pierced with bullets, yet, bearing as it were "a charmed life," these gallant officers, unwounded, bore their colours triumphantly to the top of the hill.

Lieutenant Anstruther, of the 23rd. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, having been killed near the redoubt, whilst carrying the Queen's colour, it was picked up by private William Evans, No. 8 company, who gave it to Corporal Luby; it was afterwards carried by Sergeant Luke O'Connor, who was shot in the breast, and fell, but, recovering himself, would not relinquish the colour, and carried it till the end of the action, although urged by Lieutenant Granville to go to the rear on account of his wound, for which he was praised by Major-General Sir William Codrington on the field, was recommended for and obtained his commission in the 23rd., (in which he is now a Captain,) on account of his gallantry, and has received the Victoria Cross and the Sardinian War Medal.* Corporal Luby has also obtained the latter for his services on this occasion.

Lieutenant Butler was shot under the regimental colour; Lieutenant Granville next volunteered to carry it, but there

This officer also behaved with great gallantry at the assault on the Redan, 8th. September, 1855, where he was shot through both thighs.

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being no officer with his company, Major-General Codrington, who was riding up and down the ranks on his grey horse during the whole action, directed a sergeant to be sent to take it. The honour of carrying the colour out of action fell to the lot of Sergeant Honey Smith.

During the action the regimental colour of the 7th. Royal Fusiliers was found by Captain Pearson, (Aide-de-Camp to Sir George Brown,) who was then riding by, in the hands of a soldier lying on the ground, the officers and sergeants that had carried it having been disabled. He picked it up, but no officer of that corps being near, Major-General Codrington desired him to give it to Captain Bell, saying that "it cannot be in safer keeping than with the Royal Welsh." The colour was accordingly placed between those of the 23rd. regiment, and there carried by a sergeant of the 7th. until the termination of the battle.*

Lieutenant the Honourable Hugh Annesley, of the Scots Fusilier Guards, was severely wounded by a ball, which entered the left cheek and went out at the mouth, taking away the front teeth. So severe a wound did not damp the spirits of this gallant officer, for in a letter to his mother, the Countess Annesley, speaking of a friend who visited him and was scarcely able to recognise him, he expressed a hope that one of his decayed teeth had gone with the rest of his brethren; and adds that "there is a good bit of tongue gone also, but the doctors say that will not signify, and that I shall speak as plainly as ever, or at most with a becoming lisp; so altogether I think even you must allow that I have every reason to be thankful, and I hope you will not allow yourself to fret the least about me."

Many similar instances of comfort extracted from the old adage "it might have been worse," were displayed both by officers and men. No trials were able to damp their ardour, and against such spirits it is impossible to hold any position, however formidable.

For this and other interesting information the author is indebted to Colonel Lysons, C. B., who served throughout the Crimean Campaign, and is now employed as Assistant Adjutant-General upon the staff of Lieutenant-General Sir James Frederick Love, K.C.B., Inspector General of Infantry.

In "Letters from Head-Quarters," by an Officer on the Staff, the termination of the battle is thus graphically told:-"The men were tired, and many almost exhausted for want of water. Lord Raglan rode up and down the line of troops, the men cheering him vociferously. There was such a shaking of hands; one felt very choky about the throat, and very much inclined to cry, as one wrung the hand of a friend; and 'God bless you, old fellow -So glad to see you all right!' and like expressions, were heard on every side between brother officers. It was a touching sight to see the meeting between Lord Raglan and Sir Colin Campbell. The latter was on foot, as his horse had been killed in the earlier part of the action. He went up to his lordship, and, with tears in his eyes, shook hands, saying it was not the first battle-field they had won together, and that now he had a favour to ask, namely, that as his Highlanders had done so well, he might be allowed to claim the privilege of wearing a Scotch bonnet. To this Lord Raglan, of course, gave a smiling assent; and, after a few more words of friendship on both sides, they parted to their several duties."

The French, with their wonted chivalry, commenced the attack, and Marshal St. Arnaud's words evinced that they had not degenerated, and that "they are the soldiers of Austerlitz and Jena;" and he thus paid a deserved tribute to the British: -"On our left the English met with large masses of the enemy, and with great difficulties, but everything was surmounted. The English attacked the Russian positions in admirable order under the fire of their cannon, carried them, and drove off the Russians. The bravery of Lord Raglan rivals that of antiquity. In the midst of cannon and musket-shot he displayed a calmness which never left him."

By six o'clock in the evening the French Marshal's tent was set up on the very spot where that of Prince Menschikoff had stood in the morning: the Russian commander considered himself so secure of victory, that he left his carriage there, which Marshal St. Arnaud took possession of; and it is recorded that a party of ladies had journeyed from Sebastopol, and were stationed on a hill to witness the destruction of the allies.

Such a success was not obtained without great loss. The

battle commenced at about half-past one, and lasted a few minutes over two hours. The British casualties were twentyfive officers killed, and eighty-one wounded; three hundred and thirty-seven non-commissioned officers and men were killed; one thousand five hundred and fifty wounded, and nineteen missing. The French casualties were reported as about fourteen hundred hors de combat, Generals Canrobert and Thomas being amongst the wounded; these are believed to include all those who died in the Dobrudscha.

The following officers were killed and wounded:GENERAL STAFF. Wounded.-Lieutenant Thomas Leslie, Royal Horse Guards, Orderly Officer to the Commander of the Forces; and Captain Henry Edwin Weare, 50th. Regiment, DeputyAssistant Adjutant-General.

FIRST DIVISION.-STAFF.

Killed.-Captain Horace William Cust, Coldstream Guards, Aide-de-Camp to Major-General Bentinck.

Grenadier Guards.

Wounded.-Lieutenant-Colonel Honorable Hugh Manvers Percy, Lieutenants John Montagu Burgoyne and Robert William Hamilton.

Coldstream Guards. Wounded.-Captain Charles Baring. Scots Fusilier Guards. Wounded.-Lieutenant-Colonels Charles Assheton Fitz-Hardinge Berkeley, J. Hamilton Elphinstone Dalrymple, Henry Poole Hepburn, and Francis Haygarth; Captains William Frederick Viscount Chewton, (died of wounds,) John Dugdale Astley, William Gascoine Bulwer, Duncombe F. B. Buckley, and Reginald Gipps; Lieutenants William Viscount Ennismore and the Honourable Hugh Annesley.

93rd. Highlanders. Killed.-Lieutenant Robert Abercromby. SECOND DIVISION.-STAFF. Wounded.-Lieutenant-General Sir De Lacy Evans; Lieutenant-Colonel Honourable Percy E. Herbert, 43rd. Regiment, Assistant Quartermaster-General; Captain John Wycliffe Thompson, 10th. Hussars, DeputyAssistant Quartermaster-General; Ensign Stanilas G. B. St. Clair, 21st. Regiment, Acting Interpreter; and Captain Alastair M' Ian M' Donald, 92nd. Regiment, Extra Aide-de-Camp to Major-General Pennefather.

30th. Regiment. Killed.-Lieutenant Frederick Luxmore. Wounded.-Captains Thomas H. Pakenham, Arthur Wellesley

Conolly, and Graham Le Fevre Dickson; Lieutenant and Adjutant Mark Walker.

55th. Regiment. Killed.-Brevet-Major John Baillie Rose and Captain John George Schaw. Wounded.-Colonel Charles Warren, C.B.; Major Frederick Amelius Whimper; Brevet-Major John Coats; Lieutenants George Edward Lawes Chartres Bissett and Edward Marcus Armstrong; and Lieutenant and Adjutant John Warren.

47th. Regiment. Wounded.-Major Charles F. Fordyce; Lieutenants Nathaniel George Philips, Thomas William Wollocombe, (died of wounds,) and John Gittens Maycock.

95th. Regiment. Killed.-Captains George James Dowdall and James George Eddington; Lieutenants Robert Graham Polhill and Edward William Eddington; Lieutenant and Adjutant James C. Grant Kingsley; and Lieutenant William Leman Braybrooke, Ceylon Rifles, attached to 95th. Wounded.-Lieutenant-Colonel James Webber Smith, Major Henry Hume, Brevet-Major Alfred Thomas Heyland, Captains Vincent Wing and John Neptune Sargent, Lieutenants Alexander J. J. Macdonald and Robert Garrard, Ensigns William Braybrooke, Evelyn Bazalgette, Basil Charles Boothby, and George H. Langford Brooke; Surgeon Archibald Gordon, M.D.

THIRD DIVISION. 4th. Regiment. Wounded.-LieutenantColonel Henry C. Cobbe, and Captain George Latham Thomson.

LIGHT DIVISION. 7th. Royal Fusiliers. Killed.-Captain the Honourable William Monck. Wounded.-Captains the Honourable Charles Luke Hare, (died of wounds,) Charles Edward Watson, William Henry Dominic Fitzgerald; Lieutenants Dudley Persse, Hugh Robert Hibbert, Frederick Earnest Appleyard, George W. Wallace Carpenter, the Honourable Alfred Harry Crofton, Philip George Coney, James St. Clair Hobson, (Adjutant,) and Henry Mitchell Jones.

23rd. Royal Welsh Fusiliers.

Killed.-Lieutenant-Colonel Harry George Chester; Captains Arthur Watkin Williams Wynn, Francis Edward Evans, and John Charles Conolly; Lieutenants Frederick Peter Russell Delmé Radcliffe, and Sir William Norris Young, Bart.; Second Lieutenants Henry Anstruther and Joseph Henry Butler. Wounded.-Captains William Pitcairn Campbell and Charles Edward Hopton; Lieutenants Henry Bathurst,